Daily performance meeting on the shop floor

Operational Excellence

Productivity and margin gains that hold after the project ends.

Diagnosis, performance management, process redesign and capability building, where productivity, lead-time and EBITDA gains happen. Programs designed to improve operational and financial performance significantly and for the long term.

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When we step in

When the operation works hard and the result does not follow.

Productivity below benchmark

Overtime, losses and bottlenecks that nobody measures the same way, and a plan that the shop floor does not follow.

Initiatives that do not deliver

Several improvement projects under way, with slipping deadlines, unmeasured progress and benefits that never reach the result.

A turnaround is needed

Operational and financial performance must change significantly, with a new operating and execution model, not one more project.

How we work

From diagnostic to sustained results

Every program starts with a diagnostic and ends with the team running the new routine on its own.

Diagnostic

2 to 4 weeks to understand strengths, weaknesses and what is holding performance back

Roadmap

objectives by workstream, a business case and the expected return on investment

Implementation

4 to 10 months on the shop floor, side by side with your teams

Sustaining

indicators, management routines and capability transferred to the team

Formats

Three ways to start, depending on where you are.

Performance improvement and turnaround programs

In-depth programs that implement a new operating and execution model. Operational excellence then becomes a competitive advantage. Each program is preceded by a diagnostic that sets the roadmap, the business case and the return on investment.

Acceleration of initiatives already under way

For organizations with many improvement initiatives that struggle with execution, deadlines, measurement and benefit capture. With an agile project method, we structure, execute and deliver results, including roadmaps recommended by strategy firms or corporate guidelines that units find hard to execute.

Workforce sizing and scheduling

How many people, with which skills, on which shift. We size the workforce and build schedules with mathematical optimization, within labor rules (working hours, rest, shift patterns) and the skill matrix, and adjust them when demand, weather or absences change. Built for operations with strong seasonality, such as harvest, processing and internal logistics in agribusiness.